Identifying a Few of the Guilty Culprits Who Got America into Afghanistan – and Got Away with the Crime AND the Cover-up!

De-Coding the Propaganda and Censorship from the Perpetrators of the Controlled Demolitions of World Trade Center Towers #1, #2 and # 7 on 9/11/01

And Should They Get the 2 Trillion Dollar Bill to Cover the Expenses?

Abortion Bounty Hunters in Texas Are Not ‘Whistleblowers’ -- They’re Cruel Vigilantes

One of the many preposterous claims coming from supporters of the vicious new Texas lawagainst abortion is that bounty hunters -- standing to gain a $10,000 reward from the state -- will somehow be “whistleblowers.” The largest anti-abortion group in Texas is trying to attach the virtuous “whistleblower” label to predators who’ll file lawsuits against abortion providers and anyone who “aids or abets” a woman getting an abortion.

Jewish Voices for Peace Central Ohio’s annual Tashlich ceremony and picnic.

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September 7, 2021, 6:00 PM
Clintonville Como Park, 301 W. Pacemont Road, Columbus 43202. Please join for a short Tashlich ceremony starting promptly at 6:00 PM. We will also be having a vegetarian potluck and social following the ritual. Please bring a vegetarian dish to share and a lawn chair. Table service and beverages will be provided. To access the parking lot, take West Lakeview to end and turn right. Tashlich, which literally translates to “casting off,” is a ceremony traditionally performed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah. During this ceremony, Jews symbolically cast off the sins of the previous year by tossing pebbles or bread crumbs into flowing water. During this ritual, people think of things they’ve done wrong in the past year and then “throw them away,” promising for improvement in the coming year.

Volunteers urgently needed for the Suicide Prevention Hotline

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Suicide Prevention in Columbus is located at North Central Mental Health, 1301 North High Street, where there is plenty of parking and 24-hour security.  The training for becoming a volunteer is the best training program I have ever participated in. It is 36 hours. While you will be nervous when you take the first call, you will know what to do. If you sign up to be a volunteer, and discover it's not for you, you can let it go at any time. Volunteers are people from 18 to their 80's. I've been impressed with the number of young people of high school and college (mostly OSU students) who volunteer. It is wonderful to hear a young person take a call from someone their age and help them find a path forward. COVID-19 has caused a severe shortage in volunteers who are needed for 3- or 6-hour shifts, around the clock, 24/7. Many shifts have been "covered" in the last 2 years by the only 2 paid staff members, and other times there is only 1 volunteer, when 2 or 3 are needed.

9/11: Looking Back 20 Years, Looking Ahead

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Sunday, September 5, 2021, 1:00 PM
On the 20th commemoration of the September 11th attacks, the scholars hope to reflect back on the global implications and ever-changing markers since then. The event is also a soft-launch for the newly formed International Islamophobia Studies and Research Association. Register here. 

What Ending a War Could Look Like

When you imagine ending a war, do you imagine the U.S. President lamenting the human cost of the war’s financial expense while simultaneously demanding that Congress increase military spending — and while mentioning new wars that could potentially be launched?

Do you picture him blowing up families with missiles from robot airplanes, and committing to continuing those “strikes” while maintaining that such things don’t constitute continuing the war?

Did you hope that if the wars for freedom ever ended we might get our freedoms back, our rights to demonstrate restored, the Patriot Act repealed, the local police rid of their tanks and war weapons, the landscaped stripped of all the cameras and metal detectors and bullet-proof glass that have grown up for two decades?

Did you imagine the people in Guantanamo cages who were never on a “battlefield” would no longer be viewed as threats to “return” there once the war was “ended”?

Did you think that without a war there might be something resembling peace, including perhaps an embassy, the lifting of sanctions, or the unfreezing of assets?

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